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Great Lakes Echo looked at the toxic brew that Indiana’s Grand Calumet River carries to Lake Michigan yesterday.
Today: A look at the multi-million dollar investment in its recovery.
It’s an investment not only in the river but in the near shore ecosystem of Lake Michigan.
Here’s a look at the toxic brew Indiana’s Grand Calumet River carries to Lake Michigan. Municipal and industrial effluent make up 90 percent of the river’s flow. But there’s hope for what is one of the nation’s most polluted rivers.
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources will spend $2.35 million on a dam management program in 2013, the first time the department has been granted money by the Legislature to address problems of aging dams.
Here’s a milestone for the Chicago River: It’s no longer on a list of the most endangered rivers in the nation. American Rivers each year reports on what the river advocacy group believes are the most endangered. It’s a call for action to save rivers facing critical tipping point. The Chicago River was on the list for almost two decades, mostly because the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District spewed bacteria-filled sewage without disinfecting it. For years the EPA and local environmental groups pushed city authorities to apply clean up technology since the water is widely used.
One dam removed while a nearby dam with a sketchy safety record remains in southwest Michigan.
The fate of the Muskegon River in a warming climate depends on how the land around it is managed.
Experts say removal of the Boardman River dam is the biggest in Michigan history, and the largest-ever wetlands restoration in the Great Lakes region.
A conservation group is trying to unload Michigan’s Rifle River of excess pollutants with help of a $382,000 grant from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
The river meets most state environmental and recreational standards but is threatened by surplus nutrients and sediment.
(MI) Ann Arbor.com – Mayor John Hieftje called for a truce tonight as he addressed a crowd of nearly five dozen members of Ann Arbor’s rowing community gathered at Pioneer High School. Acknowledging the tensions between competing ideologies over the fate of Argo Dam, Hieftje urged the rowers – who rely on the dam to enjoy Argo Pond – to set aside their differences with environmentalists who are calling for the dam’s removal, namely the Huron River Watershed Council. More
(WI) Green Bay Post-Gazette – The federal judge overseeing the Fox River PCB cleanup dispute has given the parties 10 days to develop a strategy for resolving remaining issues in the complex case. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach stated in a written ruling he would consider postponing final judgment only if secondary issues can be resolved “within the vicinity of a half year’s time or less.” More